Police and the judiciary in the province of San Pedro de Macoris have confirmed that three bodies have been discovered in a pit in Batey Los Conucos near Juan Dolio beach. The bodies have been identified as three bus drivers: Gary Wilson Rodriguez Castro, who drove on the Hato Mayor-Sabana de la Mar route, German Arredondo, who worked as a removal man and haulage contractor in San Pedro, and David Polanco, who drove on bus route B in San Pedro de Macoris.
The remains were found following the arrest of a woman, supposedly a member of the police, who is being linked to Hugo Antonio Zorrilla Alfonseca, described as a gang leader and the son of an unnamed active law enforcement colonel. A man named as Radhames Antonio Ramirez has also been arrested in connection with this case.
According to assistant prosecutor Carmen Mohamed, the suspects disclosed the location of their victims, whose attackers would get onto the bus near the end of their route and make them drive at gunpoint to a location, kill them and then rob them of their possessions including the vehicle.
Dozens of family members, including wives and children of the victims as well as other friends and relations arrived at the location where the bodies were found.
The pit was around 45 to 50-feet deep and Civil Defense and firefighters from San Pedro and Santo Domingo were brought in to help remove the bodies. They acted under the direction of the Central Criminal Investigation Unit (DICRIM) of the Police and the prosecutors from Hato Mayor and San Pedro.
Over the past few months, seven bus drivers have gone missing in the east of the country and the authorities are still searching for the rest. It is thought that the bus drivers were killed in turf wars between competing transport cartels.
Three other bodies were found by a man who was digging a well on 22 May 2016, but they have not yet been identified.
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